Bridge Program
The primary goal of the Bridge Program is to give a
head start to incoming students to ensure success in our first
year graduate courses, irrespective of their background.
See here for past Bridge programs: 2016.
The schedule for the 2017 Bridge Program is as follows. All talks are held in
258 Hurley Hall.
| Monday 8/7 |
|
| 10-11 |
Modules, tensor products - Jacob Landgraf |
| 1-2 |
Multilinear algebra - Gabor Szekelyhidi |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Exact sequences, chain complexes, homology - Mark Behrens |
| Tuesday 8/8 |
|
| 10-11 |
Point set toplogy - Samuel Perez-Ayala |
| Afternoon |
Outing to Warren Dunes |
| Wednesday 8/9 |
|
| 10-11 |
Lp spaces - Adele Zhou |
| 1-2 |
Basic logic - Justin Miller |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Inverse and implicit function theorems - Xiaoxiao Li |
| 3:30 |
Tea with current grad students |
| Thursday 8/10 |
|
| 10-11 |
Category theory - TJ Warner |
| 1-2 |
Manifolds - Leandro Lichtenfelz |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Vector bundles / tangent bundle - Laura Wells |
| Friday 8/11 |
|
| 10-11 |
Differential forms - Ethan Addison |
| 1-2 |
Topological groups, group actions, Lie groups/algebras - Eric Wawerczyk |